A view across the decorative water feature to the gardens beyond.

Painswick Rococo Gardens

Created in the 1740s as a fanciful pleasure garden by wealthy landowner Benjamin Hyett, Painswick Rococo Garden is the country’s last remaining Rococo garden.

Sadly it soon became overgrown and completely lost and forgotten about. It was only in the early 1980s that historians discovered a painting of the house and garden that they realized it was there! After a major restoration project it was brought back to its former glory and opened to the public in 1988.

These beautiful Georgian gardens feature a mesmerizing landscape containing deceptive vistas, pools, formal vegetable gardens, serpentine paths, follies and sculpture.

You are cordially invited to be transported back to a lost time of entertainment, leisure, fantasy and pleasure. Cotswold Garden Tours will unlock this hidden garden.

Tour details and booking

Painswick Rococo Garden tour details

A view through trees of one of the rococo style buildings above a slope at Painswick Rococo Gardens.

  • Painswick Rococo Garden is only available as part of a full-day tour with Miserden Manor Garden. Please see the Itinerary page.
  • Meet and greet at 1.30pm,
  • Horticultural tour of the garden by an experienced guide,
  • Time to wander around the gardens at your leisure,
  • Those with mobility issues can have a private talk in the cafe,
  • Features follies, formal vegetable garden, and vistas,
  • Price: £40.00 per person.

Accessibility at Painswick Rococo Gardens

A group of people enjoying discussion in the sunny garden.

 

Paths are both steep and uneven, and only around a fifth of the garden is accessible to wheelchairs.

Find Painswick Rococo Gardens

Painswick Rococo Garden
Painswick
Gloucestershire
GL6 6TH

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Painswick Rococo Gardens Bookings & Availability

There are no new tours planned for Painswick Rococo Gardens this year, but please look out for our 2025 itinerary which will be available on this website soon.